The PC is a custom build, so it's not directly from one manufacturer per se, though I had and have the AMD Ryzen Chipset Driver that is on the MSI Tomahawk "Chipset Driver" tab, however I got it straight from AMD as it is easier to download and it auto updates anyway. (So it would end up on the same version) (https://support.amd.com/en-us/download/chipset?os=Windows+10+-+64)
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Hi, I've received the RMA-d SSD yesterday, but the issue still persists. Does anyone have any ideas as I've recently tested an M.2 SSD and it worked flawlessly, and I've used a different SSD a couple of months back in this system without issues over the span of 2-3 days. What I'm asking is is there possibly some design with the SSD that may just be messing up with my setup, or a possible flaw that has come up from my MoBo very recently that only affects SSDs in SATA. I would like to get to the bottom of this, and am unlikely going to bother with any more RMAs as it's a hassle and I'll soon have a use of the drive as a scratch disk for a certain suite of video production software cough cough that's memory/storage hungry, but for the meantime it's an annoyance that I wouldn't expect to have come across twice (Though, to be fair, I've had to replace 2 ram kits, a dual-case fan kit and GPU fans, so it might just be my luck) Anyhow, thanks for the help.
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Thanks for the fast reply, I don't think I will be able to run the Active Garbage Collection by leaving it on for so long, I will try and go through with it though. I'll do the other steps, run TRIM and 'Secure Erase +' from my motherboard to wipe the drive and give it another clean Windows install, hopefully it works but there's always the possibility it doesn't. Anyhow, thanks again for the fast replies and nice suport.
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Hi, Since I use HWiNFO64 quite often, and it never showed warnings/errors, I never thought to check CrystalDiskInfo, thanks. Here's the screenshot of the SSD in Crystal Disk Info and it looks 'clean' to me, but I don't know.
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Hi, I'm new here so apologize any mistakes etc. I just need help since I recently installed a new Crucial BX300 120GB SSD in my Ryzen system, everything worked fine on a fresh Windows install except several weeks ago Windows and every window within it has been freezing. The current window stays operational to a certain degree, whether it be a game or a program, however nothing else loads or is interactable properly, after a couple seconds - up to even 2 minutes, everything unfreezes and my commands are "sent". If I have task manage open and catch it whilst it's freezing, the SSD jumps to 100% usage with no programs using it, I assure anyone here that I have absolutely no bloatware nor is this an issue I created - same thing happened on an old, trusty, install of Windows alongside the most brand-spanking update with a new ISO from Microsoft. I will add some images of the two, only, but consistent events in event viewer that I recieve during the freeze. I also want to add that I have not made any changes; the issue started occuring randomly and I updated, reset and tuned my BIOS - all steps of which still created the issue. I've reinstalled Windows multiple times and yet the error and freeze still occurs, even on a completely fresh and updated install straight from Microsoft's ISO tool I've heard that there may be an issue with these SSDs and the AHCI mode on the SATA controller, specifically something to do with power savings. I've tried turning off all power saving options to no avail, and my system does not have IDE mode. This issue also seems to never, or very rarely arise, when exclusively just playing a game - especially one on a second HDD. I would really appreciate "standard" fixes, if there are any, that I haven't tried and may be quite simple - but I wouldn't mind tinkering with stuff to get it to work as long as it's not non-optimal. I aslso did sfc /scannow and DISM online image cleanup, no errors appeared but still keep freezing. And if this is a manufacturing/design flaw, what should I do? I got this SSD maybe 3-4 months ago from Amazon. The exact specifications of the system MSI B350 Tomahawk, 'initial' BIOS: |7A34v1F|, current BIOS: |7A34v1H| (Happens on both) Ryzen 3 1200 (Stock) PSU/RAM/GPU are unrelated and I don't want to bloat this post as they work.
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